> So > if the libretro/retroarch folks had been willing to relicense to MIT, then everything > would be fine from SEGA's point of view. I mean of course it would. At that point, > libretro would just be giving them everything once that they could use forever > without giving anything back. SEGA didn't even want to give them some kind of > "powered by retroarch" splash screen or visible credit when you run the games.
This is the same reason the "New Retro Arcade Neon" frontend is controversial: it's commercial closed source that runs retroarch cores. Except that they do give libretro visible credit, just not the original authors of the retroarch cores (e.g. MAMEdev, Mednafen, byuu, Eke-Eke, etc, etc).
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